What the scanner does
- Finds the document. The page boundary is detected automatically — no manual corner-dragging.
- Straightens the perspective. A photo taken at an angle becomes a straight-on rectangle at the right proportions.
- Flattens curves and creases. Curled pages and open books are dewarped with a neural model; book spreads can be split into two pages.
- Cleans the lighting. Shadows are evened out and paper is whitened — or switch to black & white for a classic scanner look.
- Combines pages into one PDF. Drop a photo per page and get a single multi-page scanned PDF, with a drag-to-reorder page list — or uncheck the combine option for one PDF per photo.
How it works
- Photograph the document. Get the whole page in frame; a contrasting background helps.
- Drop the photo above. JPG, PNG, WebP, and iPhone HEIC photos work — up to five files, 20 MB each. For a multi-page document, drop one photo per page.
- Pick the output. Scanned PDF for filing and email, Scanned JPG for a cleaned image. With several photos, keep Combine into one PDF checked for a single multi-page PDF. Choose Open book layout for a two-page spread.
- Convert and download. Results appear in a few seconds; files delete themselves after an hour.
Good for
- Receipts, contracts, and forms photographed on a desk.
- Book and magazine pages — the spine curvature is flattened, not just cropped.
- Whiteboards and handouts shot at an angle from a chair.
- Turning a camera-roll backlog of paper into filed PDFs.
FAQ
How is this different from just converting a photo to PDF? A plain photo-to-PDF conversion embeds the photo as-is: tilted, with the table or floor visible around the page. Scanning finds the document's boundary, crops away the background, corrects the camera angle so the page is a straight-on rectangle, and evens out the lighting — the same thing the iPhone Notes scanner does.
Does it work on photos of open books with a curved spine? Yes. Choose the Open book layout and the scanner flattens the curvature around the spine with a neural dewarping model, then splits the spread into two separate pages. Single curled or folded pages are also flattened automatically, even without book mode.
Which photo formats can I scan? JPG, PNG, WebP, and iPhone HEIC/HEIF photos, up to 20 MB each and five photos per batch. Output is a scanned PDF — several photos combine into one multi-page PDF by default — or a cleaned JPG.
Can I scan a multi-page document into one PDF? Yes. Photograph each page, drop up to five photos at once, and keep Combine into one PDF checked: each photo becomes a page of a single scanned PDF, in the order shown — drag the page-order list to rearrange. Uncheck it to get one PDF per photo instead.
What do the enhancement options do? Color evens out shadows and whitens the paper while keeping ink and stamp colors. Black & white produces a crisp, high-contrast scanner look with the smallest file size. Original only fixes the geometry and leaves the photo's colors untouched.
Is the document scanner free and private? Yes. No signup, no watermark. Uploads are private and files are deleted automatically after one hour.
Related
- Image → Text (OCR) → extract the text instead of an image
- JPG → PDF → wrap a photo in a PDF without scan cleanup
- HEIC → JPG → just convert an iPhone photo
- Compress PDF → shrink the scanned PDF further
- PDF → Text → OCR a PDF you already have
- All supported formats →